Neon

welcome to the Neon wiki, here you will learn a lot about the element neon.


How the element got it's name and how it was discovered.

• Neon got it's name from the Greek word neos, meaning glowing.
• Neon was discovered by two chemists.
• The discoverers where William Ramsay and Morris Travers.
• They discovered neon in 1898.
• They discovered it when Ramsay liqufied part of the atmosphere then boiled them and found three gases; neon, xenon, and krypton.

This is a picture of neon art.

The uses of neon.

• Neon's most popular use is in signs and under cars.
• Because of neon's qualities it emits a very powerfull and bright light.
• You can see neon in action in all the pictures on this page.
• Also sometimes artist use neon to create art like in this picture above.

Neon quick facts

• Neon has a boiling point of -246.048 degrees celsuis.
• Neon has a melting point -248.67 degrees celsuis.
• Neon is a gas.
• The density of neon is 1.2044 g/cc.

Finding neon

This is yet another picture of neon art.

• Neon is found in our and other planet's atmosphere.
• Because neon is a gas it isn't strange that it is found in the atmosphere
• Also because it's a gas it isn't found in the Earth's crust.

  This is one of the many neon signs of the world.

Neon's composition

• Neon has 10 nuetrons, 10 electrons, and 10

  This picture shows neons atomic numbe, symbol, and atomic mass.

  protons.

This picture is of a skyline with blue neon. This illustrates one of the most popular uses of neon.

Sources
http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/neon.htm
References: Los Alamos National Laboratory (2001), Crescent Chemical Company (2001), Lange's Handbook of Chemistry (1952), CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics (18th Ed